Installation guide

Style 2: Cooktop over cabinets
1. Determine whether your cabinet construction provides
clearance for installing clamping brackets at cooktop base
ends, This is the recommended location. Clamping brackets
can be installed on the front and back of cooktop base
bottom, if necessary.
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A. Attachment screw holes for optional front and back
location.
B. Clamping bracket (end locations recommended)
C. cooktop base bottom
D. Attachment screw
E. Attachment screw location (recommended)
2. The clamping brackets can be installed before or after the
cooktop is placed into the cutout, Complete the following
steps for the option you choose.
Installing Brackets Before Placing Cooktop in Cutout
1. Using 2 or more people, place the cooktop upside down on a
covered surface.
2. Remove the attachment screws for the selected bracket
locations from the bottom of the cooktop base.
3. Select bracket mounting holes that will allow the bracket to
extend far enough out from the cooktop for the installation of
21/2'' (6.4 cm) clamping screws. See "Attach Cooktop to
Countertop" for illustration of clamping screw installation.
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Using 2 or more people, turn the cooktop right side up and
place in cutout,
NOTE: Make sure that the front edge of the cooktop is
parallel to the front edge of the countertop. If repositioning is
needed, lift entire cooktop up from cutout to avoid scratching
the countertop.
Loosen the screws and rotate the brackets so that they are
perpendicular to the edge of the cooktop base and extend
beyond its edge, Securely tighten screws,
Installing Brackets After Placing Cooktop in Cutout
Using 2 or more people, place cooktop right side up into the
cutout.
NOTE: Make sure that the front edge of the cooktop is
parallel to the front edge of the countertop. If repositioning is
needed, lift entire cooktop up from cutout to avoid scratching
the countertop.
2. Remove the attachment screws for the selected bracket
locations from the bottom of the cooktop base.
3. Select bracket mounting holes that will allow the bracket to
extend far enough out from the cooktop for the installation of
21/2'' (6,4 cm) clamping screws.
4.
A. Cooktop
B. Cooktop base
C. Attachment screw
D. Clamping bracket (extends far enough beyond cooktop
base to allow installation of clamping screws)
E. 2_/2"(6.4 cm) clamping screw (to be installed in "Attach
Cooktop to Countertop")
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Attach brackets to cooktop base bottom with bracket
attachment screws using the bracket mounting holes
selected in Step 3. Securely tighten screws.
A. Edge of cooktop base bottom
B. Clamping bracket
4. Attach brackets to cooktop base bottom with bracket
attachment screws using the bracket mounting holes
selected in Step 2,
5. Rotate brackets so they do not extend beyond edge of
cooktop base.
6. Tighten screws just enough to hold brackets in place when
cooktop is put in cutout.